The 2003 CMJ Music Marathon officially commenced its bullshit on October 22.
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While the release is set out as a piece on its own, it is hard to listen to it without attaching songs to the albums they would seem to embellish.
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Though some of the songs here, especially the earlier ones, can be quite simple, even raw at times, there's a sad, clean sweetness that comes through despite the occasional bit of tape hiss, of tinny chords.
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